Joyce spent the bulk of her career working for the UW Hospital and Clinics and the UW School of Medicine. Most recently she was the Student Programs Coordinator for the UW Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.
Carol worked in the Nursing Department for UW-Madison, retiring in 2001.
He served as an adjunct Clinical Professor of Neurology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1989-98.
Tim returned to Madison in 1976 to practice rheumatology, and also held a Professorship of Medicine at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health before retiring in 2012.
She worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Environmental Toxicology Department, studying the effects of toxins on fish in Lake Michigan. In 1997, Linda shifted careers and obtained a master’s degree in Public Policy and Public Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison LaFollette Institute with an emphasis on healthcare.
Skop remembers Sobah fondly from her capstone course she taught at UW in 2016. “It was a genomics course but I teach the students how to communicate science,” Skop says. “I’m very much a proponent of creating inclusive environments.”
In 1959 and joined the Theatre Arts and Drama Department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He reached the rank of Professor and served as Assistant Dean of the College of Letters and Science, chair of the Faculty Advising Service, and head of the Student Orientation, Advising, and Registration (SOAR) program.
Jean Heitz will be remembered for her patience, her strength, and her generosity, as well as for the passion she brought to her role at the UW-Madison Biology Department, where she was a Distinguished Faculty Associate since 1978.
Dr. Banes taught at Florida State University, the State University of New York’s Purchase College, Wesleyan University and Cornell University before joining the faculty of the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1991. She taught dance and theater history and, from 1992 to 1996, chaired the dance program.
Banes’s teaching career included stints at Florida State University, SUNY Purchase, Wesleyan University, Cornell and the University of Wisconsin Madison, where she was named the Marian Hannah Winter Professor of Theater History and Dance Studies in 1996.
Cynthia Greenberg was born on Jan. 31, 1923, in the Bronx. Her father, Morris, owned some of Manhattan’s first parking garages, and her mother, Sophia, was a homemaker. She studied at the University of Wisconsin and New York University before earning a bachelor’s degree at Columbia University in 1946 and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering there in 1948.
She also served as adjunct Law Professor at the UW Madison Law School.
He taught at the University of Wisconsin Madison in the areas of Criminal Law and Juvenile Justice Administration.
Noted: “He was first and foremost a journalist with a strong sense of social justice and a pen that could be withering at times,” said Patricia Loew, professor at the Medill School of Journalism and co-director of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research at Northwestern University, who worked with Rolo as a colleague and a student. “He was fiercely loyal, as he was in sheltering and playing dad to his teenage nephew. I advised him as a graduate student, an experience that was both exhilarating and exasperating. He could be acerbic and suffered no fools, as his cohorts sometimes complained, and as his own students learned when he became a UW-Madison lecturer.”
Larry worked as an auditor for the State and University of Wisconsin, retiring in the 90s.
The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey program has lost one of its more beloved alums.
Rob Andringa, a Madison native who helped UW win the 1990 NCAA title under Jeff Sauer but was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer in December 2017, died Friday night.
Rob Andringa, a Madison Sports Hall of Fame member who won an NCAA championship with the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team and later called one as a popular broadcaster, died Friday. He was 51.
She retired in 1992 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Nursing, as a Full Professor with Emeritus status.
Andringa died Friday night at his home in Stillwater, Minnesota, nearly 2½ years after he was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. He was 51.
“Barbara Sher was a product of the Human Potential Movement,” said Christine Whelan, who has studied self-help books as a professor in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “She focused on self-actualization, with a bit of the more modern ‘just do it’ pragmatics that readers have flocked to in recent years. She was part of the self-help movement that talks about work as a source of identity, self-fulfillment and a way of living one’s purpose in the world.”
In 1956, he moved to Madison to help construct a new synchrotron accelerator at the University of Wisconsin and eventually became Optics Group Leader of the UW’s Synchrotron Radiation Center. He was a world expert in ultraviolet optics and instrumentation.
Merten, who was born in Milwaukee, received an undergraduate degree in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a masters in computer science from Stanford University, and a PhD in computer science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
David obtained a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1963. The next 33 years were spent as a professor in the Dairy Science Department at the University of Wisconsin, where he taught 10,228 students.
Alfred worked at the Animal Husbandry Department, University of Wisconsin caring for the Genetic Research Swine Breeding herd, at the University of Wisconsin Mandt Farm on Mineral Point Road, Verona, WI for over 43 years.
After graduating from Wayne County High School in Jesup, he earned a bachelor’s degree in religion at Emory University in Atlanta in 1974. In 1978 he earned a master’s degree in South Asian studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he became active in gay rights issues.
In 1981, he joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he co-founded the industry consortium WEMPEC and served for 28 years as its Co-Director and as the W. W. Grainger Professor for power electronics and electrical machines.
Following his military service, he obtained a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1959. The next 40 years were spent as a professor in the Food Science Department at the University of Wisconsin.
In 1970, Hans joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, establishing what soon became an internationally recognized research program in physical-organic chemistry.
In 1966, he was appointed Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
In all, Meg worked in various roles for the University of Wisconsin for over 40 years before her retirement in June 2017. She worked for the medical school, school of business, agricultural journalism department, and as a publication editor at UW-Extension. She was a public information specialist for UW-Extension at the time of her retirement.
She taught 18 different courses at UW including Biocore, in which she taught “Organismal Biology” to undergraduates for 28 years. During her tenure, she also Chaired the Departments of Neurophysiology, Physiology, and Neuroscience.
Dr. Yandell taught at UW-Madison from 1966 until 2011.
Kathy proudly retired after 40 years working at the University of Wisconsin.
Ginny worked as an administrative assistant at the University of Wisconsin Department of Sociology for 34 years.
After medical school he started an Ear, Nose, and Throat residency at UW-Madison, and was named chief resident at UW Hospital.
He received appointments at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and the UW-Extension where he served as Extension Program Leader for Natural and Environmental Resources.
Donna graduated from Madison Central High School in 1963, and spent her 42 year career as a secretary at the UW-Madison.
Thomas Lee Miller was born on Aug. 31, 1940, in Milwaukee to Edward and Shirley Miller. He earned a bachelor’s degree in drama and speech in 1962 at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, then set out for Los Angeles, where he worked for the director Billy Wilder on “Irma la Douce” (1963), “The Fortune Cookie” (1966) and other films.
She was a professor of music at the University of Wisconsin, Madison from 1978 through 2002, specializing in music theory and was formative in establishing the jazz studies program that now exists there (which is newly revived).
Fostner, who reportedly graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in nuclear engineering and physics, had worked in New York for DV Trading LLC, a Chicago-based proprietary trading firm.
Noted: Born in Milwaukee in 1940, Miller was in Nicolet High School’s first graduating class in 1958. After earning a degree in drama and speech at the University of Wisconsin, he moved to Los Angeles to find a job in film and television. His first big break was serving as dialogue coach for legendary director Billy Wilder, in what effectively became a four-year apprenticeship.
Hans was a dump truck owner and operator for over 20 years and then became a motor vehicle operator for the UW-Madison, retiring in 2019.
In 1963, he began his career as a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UW Madison.
She was a Certified Professional Secretary, working as an Administrative Secretary at the UW for 40+ years, and was a member of the University Women’s Service Club, serving two terms as treasurer.
He became a steamfitter working on the UW-Madison campus and at UW Hospitals and Clinics.
Though born in Allentown, Penn. in 1933, he considered Wisconsin home from the year he arrived in 1965 to work as journals manager at the University of Wisconsin Press.
Her belief in the value of education brought her back to Madison, where she earned a Ph.D. As Program Director and Distinguished Faculty Associate at the University of Wisconsin Division of Continuing Studies she was a shining example of The Wisconsin Idea.
David taught Human Anatomy and Histology and did cell research at New York University Medical School and Cornell University Medical School. He joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Medical School, Anatomy Department in 1959. He chaired the Department during sixteen difficult years in the 1960s and 1970s.
Noted: Conley started collecting art when he was in college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied art and economics. He was also a cartoonist for school publications.
Stuart Alan Gordon was born in Chicago on Aug. 11, 1947, to Bernard and Rosalie (Sabath) Gordon. His father was a supervisor at a cosmetics factory, his mother a high school English teacher. He graduated from high school in Chicago before studying theater at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
She … worked as laboratory and editorial assistant for Prof. David E. Green at the Institute for Enzyme Research at the University of Wisconsin.
Emmett joined the UW Soil Science faculty in 1964 until his retirement in 1994.
Mr. Weissberg attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1957 before leaving to study at Juilliard. On Sundays afternoons he joined singalongs with the likes of John Herald and Bob Yellin, in Washington Square Park, where public singing was permitted from only 12 to 6 p.m.
John Erickson, the men’s basketball coach at the University of Wisconsin from 1959-67 and the first general manager of the Milwaukee Bucks, has passed away.
Erickson died Wednesday in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was 92.
She worked for the University of Wisconsin for 35 years as a program assistant.
John Erickson, who coached the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team from 1959-67 and later served as the first general manager of the Milwaukee Bucks, died Wednesday at age 92 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
They lived in Berkeley, Calif. where he worked at Shell Development Co. In 1967, they moved to Madison when Olvi joined the faculty of the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: While at the University of Wisconsin, Brian met Mary while washing dishes at Barnard Residence Hall. The two were married for 62 years and have five children, 26 grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren.
A professor of cello, he played professionally in the Pro Arte Quartet for 25 years at the University of Wisconsin School of Music. He served as the Associate Director of the School of Music after he left the quartet.
Noted: Wetselaar, who was 33 when he died in the Molson Coors shootings Feb. 26, grew up in the Milwaukee area. He graduated from Pius XI High School in 2005 and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009 with a degree in political science. He met his wife while at UW-Madison, where they both worked at a restaurant.
